Floating vanes for flat panel display system
AssigneeCorning Glass Works
InventorsRoger A. Allaire, Wendell S. Blanding
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Abstract
In a flat panel display system including a polyhedral enclosing housing structure having opposed front and back panels, which structure requires a subatmospheric or evacuated environment for the performance of the electronic components contained therein, a plurality of substantially parallel transversely spaced apart and longitudinally extending supporting vanes are fixtured within said housing between said front and back panels for limited movement within said housing prior to evacuating the interior thereof and for engagably supporting said front and back panels against the forces generated by atmospheric pressure when said interior is evacuated.
Claims4
A method of making an evacuated flat panel display device comprising, forming a face plate and a base plate from sheet glass, securing a plurality of slotted opposed supports in fixed position relative to said face plate and said base plate, positioning a plurality of longitudinally extending supporting glass sheets in transversely spaced-apart relationship within the slotted supports secured relative to one of said plates, assembling glass side and end panels upon said one plate, positioning said other plate upon said side and end panels and receiving portions of said supporting sheets within the slotted supports positioned on said other plate, sealing said panels and said plates together to form an enclosed housing while permitting limited movement of said support sheets within said housing, and evacuating the interior of said housing and simultaneously engaging said face and base plates with said support sheets such that said support sheets support said face and base plates against the forces generated by the exterior atmospheric pressure.
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